Good wrap-up
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Bolsonaro’s Brazil | LRB
Read this masterful piece by Perry Anderson even if you know nothing about Brazil, it has insights about weak democracies and clientelist systems that are universal
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Bitch Nation | LRB
Musab Younis on the sexual fetishization of Arab men in France
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The Otherworldliness of Ibn Khaldun | NYRB
Malise Ruthven reviews Robert Irwin’s new bio of Ibn Khaldoun
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Yemen Under Siege | NYRB
Robert Worth reviews books by Bonnefoy, Lackner and Brandt on Yemen’s catastrophe
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Is the next Arab uprising happening in plain sight? | MonkeyCage
Marc Lynch
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Learn from the best | Synaps
Interviews with a range of professionals who document (in various ways) the Middle East.
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Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’? | The Nation
Very interesting piece on Duss – a great guy who is a refreshing change from the usual “blob” types.
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The Manufactured Controversy About Ilhan Omar and the Israel Lobby | MERIP
Views from Joel Beinin, Noura Erakat, Omar Baddar, and Mouin Rabbani.
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AUC Board of Trustees reaffirms confidence in university administration against faculty, student vote | Mada Masr
Mood at AUC must be pretty nasty.
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